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site, the upper ones shorter, and the last middle den er pride sessile., Pericarpium broader than long, 
obconical, comprest, very minutely hairy ; within the calyx whitish, exquisitely holosericeous and 
melliferous, its cuticle there ins pry furning yellow upon being wounded, 2-locular with many seeds 
inveach cell. Calyx yellowagreer y similar to the stipules in structure, divided into 4 narrow seg- 
ments with broad sinusses in which there is often an additional tooth. .Corolla from 8 tox 10 lines 
. long: Tube whitish at the lowest base, foomn thence scarlet, its insidepaler and nearly white towards 
the top, 4-angular from below it#*middle : Limb scarlet with ovate segments : externally rough with 
minute papillz, deciduous. Biden pale yellow, almost sessile, inserted near the mouth of the tube, 
erect, linear. Pollen pale yellow. Style white, reaching to beyond the middle of the tube, erect, 
cylindrical, smooth. Stigma very pale scarlet, divided into two thick oval segments recurved at the 
margin. Seeds blackish brown, imbricated upon a globular receptacle in each cell, orbicular and 
bordered with a thin membrane. 
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A Stamen highly ma§nified. 4. Fruit nearly ripe. 5. Transverse section of thesame, 6 Re- 
2 RT of the seeds naked and covered, 7. Two views of a seed magnified. 
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